offstage

alternative off-stage

1. not comparableOf or relating to that part of a stage not visible to the audience.
2. not comparableOf or relating to the private life of a celebrity.

alternative off-stage

1. not comparableTaking place offstage (as above).

present singular third person offstages · participle present offstaging · participle past offstaged · past offstaged · alternative off-stage

1. transitiveTo relegate (part of a play) to the offstage area, rather than showing it to the audience.

   A boy has just murdered another one year older than himself, but Morgan offstages the event as a nuntius would the horrors of Greek tragedy.

   2009, Rodney Edgecombe, Aspects of Form and Genre in the Poetry of Edwin Morgan, page 94